For the past year, our Educational Technology Service have been developing a system to deliver multiple-choice tutorial questions using the web. It's based on an HTML-compatible language called TML (Tutorial Markup Language), and allows several different question types, with automatic logging of the student's score, etc.

Very impressed with the scope TML allows. Its structured format would allow easy generation of source, all be it with a fair amount of typing. But would its primary role be to assess or to instruct. ie. should wrong answers yield an informative response. If the instructional element is missing then its appeal to users would be low and probably only for required testing. If an instructional role is expected then I think users will be put of by the thought of logged scoring. Password access would also greatly reduce the number of users and really might well restrict it to the realms of LAN based CAL packages.

I've just written an example tutorial in TML using Chemistry-based questions and it's now on-line on our ETS server at:

http://www.ets.bris.ac.uk/ets/resource/tutorial/tutorial.htm

A nice demonstration. Even though the original demo illustrated the styles available having, the material in context shows the potential more. I didnt realise toluene would nitrate in the meta position. ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)